Scottish Powerlifting AGM – Announcement – 10 December 2017

Scottish Powerlifting would like to notify all members that our Annual General Meeting will be held on Sunday 10 December 2017 from 12 noon to 3pm. The AGM will take place at the Tayview room at Bell’s Sport Centre, Perth, PH1 5HS.

The AGM will be held in accordance with the current Scottish Powerlifting Constitution. The position of Director for Scotland is up for renewal this year and has a tenure of three years. Any person voted in as Director for Scotland at the Scottish Powerlifting AGM must be ratified as fit for position at the British Powerlifting AGM in March 2018.

We would like to take this opportunity to notify members of the following:

All nominations for Office Bearers, including Director for Scotland, should be received by the interim General Secretary no later than 14 days prior to the AGM – 26 November 2017 at 12 noon

All nominations should be seconded and signed off by the members making the nomination

Where a nominated person has not agreed to their nomination all votes for this person will be omitted

All items for the agenda, including any notices of motion, should be received by the General Secretary no later than 14 days prior to the AGM – 26 November 2017 at 12 noon

The General Secretary shall make the AGM papers available to the members no later than 1 week prior to the AGM – 3 December 2017 at 12 noon

Voting at the AGM will take place with a show of hands. In addition to this, SPA will accept postal votes on committee nominations published prior to the AGM, postal votes will include votes via email from bona fide members who have a registered email address prior to publication of the agenda items.

Postal/Email Voting Process

When all nominations have been collated and verified we will open up voting for postal and email votes. All votes must be sent to the Director (and acting Chair), Alex Mathieson, 27 Gairn Crescent, Aberdeen, AB10 6BE or via email at gensec@scottishpowerlifting.com. Any postal/electronic vote that does not clearly state your member number, what post you are voting for and who you are voting for will be invalid. Please note the following:

Votes will only be accepted from members sent from their registered email addresses at the point of joining Scottish Powerlifting

Any postal votes should be signed off by the member voting

Members are only permitted one vote per post, where more than 1 vote is submitted by any one person all their votes will become invalid

No late votes will be accepted under any circumstances

The list of nominated people will be issued via the Scottish Powerlifting website no later than Thursday, 30 November 2017.

All postal and email votes must be received by the General Secretary no later than 12pm the day prior to the AGM

Postal and email votes will be counted by the General Secretary and verified by the Chairperson and Director for Scotland

Postal and email votes will be published, by name and membership number, as an appendix to the minutes